7:42 PM,
Dec. 7, 2012

The Tippecanoe County Courthouse Christmas lights Tuesday in Lafayette.

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Minutes after the mayors flipped the switch to turn on the lights on the courthouse dome a week ago, Ken McCammon counted up to 20 bulbs already burned out.

McCammon, president of the nonprofit organization Friends of Downtown, said that over the past few years they have been trying to find a solution to the problematic courthouse dome lights.

This year, the organization decided to try three new kinds of lights, all LEDs, said James Ogden, business manager and financial secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 668. The three strands can be seen from the corner of ...